Kathryn Jezer-Morton recently wrote a viral article for The Cut saying that we should all try to make 2026 the year of “friction maxxing.” Here's why she's right.

Whether you're energized by 'living life on hard mode' or recharged by simplicity and flow, your appetite for friction is a ...

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, ...

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There’s a through-line in the contents of the latest issue of Wallpaper* magazine and it’s that friction is a powerfully positive force. Consider the definition of friction: a force of resistance in ...

One type of friction can waste energy even when two perfectly smooth surfaces move against each other, but researchers are getting a handle on how to attenuate or stop it completely ...